The group returned to Austin. There is no direct flight from here to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Taking a commercial flight requires a transfer in Dallas. Because there are no big companies here, it is difficult for the business jet leasing business to guarantee that a plane will be transferred in time.

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A few hours later, in the terminal of the Dallas Airport, Paula Wagner and Niceta found a VIP lounge for Ronald, where the three of them took a break.

"Ronald, Tom regrets..."

Paula handed Ronald a cup of instant coffee. She accompanied Ronald on this trip. What she wanted to do most was to help her biggest client and maintain a relationship with Ronald.

In fact, not only Tom Cruise, but also Paula, Nicita, Richard, and all other agents in this line of CAA regretted it.

The appeal of a big star who can be nominated for an Oscar is far greater than that of an Oscar winner and a big star. A big star who has won both awards and box office has a huge impact on the business of related people.

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If Tom Cruise can get an Oscar nomination, then whether it is a large-scale commercial film production or a medium-sized production with a particularly good story, if he expresses interest alone, the project can be established. If he doesn't want to take it, he can also

Let the project fail.

On the set of "Rain Man", after being enlightened by Ronald's unintentional words, Dustin Hoffman performed very smoothly, as if he had found the feeling, and it was as if he had mastered playing an autistic person.

This, of course, has a lot to do with the fact that he has spent a long time with a group of autistic patients before, but if there is anything that is the secret of his performance, it is that some autistic patients have a relatively low IQ compared to other people.

, which is relatively easy to act.

What ordinary people think of them as low IQ is not really low IQ, but a lack of basic skills in getting along and socializing with others. Some of them are not only not stupid, but also have IQs that exceed ordinary people. There is a saying in medicine that

They're called "savant syndrome."

"Rain Man" is such a character in the script. Although he is forced to complete the same action every day to feel at ease, he can accurately report the number of toothpicks by looking at the toothpicks spilled on the table.

Charlie, played by Tom Cruise, also took advantage of this characteristic of his brother Rain Man and went to the casino with him to kill everyone and earn enough working capital for his second-hand car shop.

"We all realized it in hindsight. We didn't know why Dustin insisted on changing the real mentally retarded patients in the original script to autistic geniuses. Or you can see at a glance that this revised script brings a lot of benefits to the performers.

The advantages come.”

"Hey, if you have been a director like me and spent enough time in the editing room, you will be very sensitive to the little actions of the actors. They really felt that scene, and they mobilized their memory to perform that scene.

, you will have an intuition.”

The director is the only audience for the actors' live performances, and he watches their performances over and over again in the editing room. Over time, he will develop an intuition and can judge how much effort an actor put in at a glance.

Dustin Hoffman's performance method, which relies on imitating real-life prototypes, actually has a difficulty that is difficult to overcome. That is the real people with underground IQs, and it is difficult for normal people to understand their thoughts.

Therefore, if he sticks to the original role setting, Hoffman will encounter the problem of not being able to live and eat the performance size when acting. In other words, it will be easy to overact, making the audience feel that it is not like what they have seen in life, or imagined.

Come out mentally retarded.

However, it is much easier to grasp the scale of this autistic genius patient when acting. When the audience sees him performing Yuren's fear of social interaction and various stereotyped behaviors, it is easy for the audience to connect with the introverts in their lives.

Get up, magnify their behavior several times, and you are Rain Man.

Rainman's talent in mathematics made them think such a character was very cute. The script cleverly allowed the protagonist to gain extra love from the audience.

To be honest, this kind of role is not very difficult to perform, and Tom Cruise is completely capable of it. In fact, during rehearsals, he and Dustin Hoffman often swapped roles and said each other's lines.

After every rehearsal, he would call Paula to express his regrets.

There is a subtle point here that neither Paula nor Cruise noticed, that is, Rain Man is no longer the kind of person with low IQ who is considered difficult to play. Everyone has fallen into the misunderstanding of old stories, only Rona

De felt this intuitively.

"Actually, Tom's appearance is not suitable for acting. He is so handsome, and the audience prefers to see him act handsome like a star on the screen, rather than being an actor like Dustin Hoffman." Rona

De said something that everyone in the circle recognized.

"It's a pity that Tom himself pursues acting skills. I can't convince him, and I don't want to convince him." Paula replied, of course she knew this. But it's a good thing that Cruise himself pursues acting skills. In addition, successful male stars of this age,

It is difficult to persuade them to change their minds.

At this time, the radio began to broadcast the news that they were changing flights and starting to board passengers. Ronald and several agents arrived in the business class. After stretching his legs, Ronald picked up the eye mask, took out the earplugs, and said to Paula, "I'm a little bit

I’m tired, I need to catch up on some sleep on the way to Santa Fe.”

"I will tell the flight attendant." Paula showed a special smile and sat down with her husband.

The pilot seemed to be retired from the Navy, and he took off very hard. But then it became very stable after level flight. Ronald quickly fell asleep. The noise from the engine became weaker after reaching the business class, and after passing through the soundproof earmuffs,

Just some residual buzz.

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"Buzz buzz..." A burst of low background music came, and Ronald saw a 2.39:1 widescreen picture, on which a group of Indians with colorful faces painted on them, holding spears and bows and arrows, were walking horizontally.

across the entire screen.

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More than half of.

Ronald smiled in his dream. This is the authentic way of shooting a Western film, which integrates the characters with the vast western grassland. If it were a normal 1.85 aspect ratio, it would be impossible to have so many characters in the mid-shot, and still have it.

The beautiful grassland in the background is blurred out. Not to mention the 4:3 TV-level picture of Lone Pigeon Town shot by Diane. The dialogue can only be shown in close-ups, and even an over-the-shoulder shot cannot fit the two characters.

"Oh... Lurrulu..." The Indian on the screen let out a characteristic howl. Ronald took a look and saw that there was a man with a mustache wearing a U.S. military uniform during the Civil War among the Indians.

Inside, it was Kevin Costner.

"Has this guy really found an investor? This scene looks like a real scene. There are so many horses and so many people. It's very expensive to shoot." Ronald couldn't help but sigh, is it possible that western movies will become a popular genre again in the future?

Have you filmed it yet?

"No, why is Costner's character with the Indians?" Ronald suddenly discovered the problem. Traditional western movies all have plots of fighting Indian warriors. White people and Indians rarely fight side by side. At most,

That is, some Indians naturalized white people and fought with the more brutal Indian tribes.

As the scene turned, women and children came out to see off the group of soldiers who were leaving. Ronald clearly saw a woman with a white face inside, wearing the clothes and decorations of an Indian woman.

The camera began to soar into the sky. These warriors, after bidding farewell to their families, appeared from the bottom of the camera, riding on horses without saddles, and set off forward.

"This lens is beautiful." Ronald exclaimed in his dream, "But it's also so expensive..." On the grassland, tall and large swing arms are installed, as well as Indian warriors riding bareback horses, these group performances

The training and safety costs are scary.

A low and majestic soundtrack sounded, and the camera moved to the undulating hills in the distance, and a gray line gradually emerged from behind the hills.

"What is that? It doesn't seem to be the enemy's cavalry?" Ronald distinguished it carefully.

The black and gray lines became clearer and clearer, and huge and fat animals gradually appeared on the horizon.

"Rumble, rumble..." The hoofbeats of these giant animals began to cover the entire picture. Ronald looked at them. They were bigger than ordinary cows and their fur was thicker.

As soon as the camera turned, this kind of animal - the American bison - was running all over the mountains and fields towards the camera. The rumbling hooves, accompanied by the bursts of smoke and dust kicked up by them, caused the human heart and the sound of the hooves to change.

The strange resonance is connected with the Indian hunters on horseback driving the buffalo from the outside of the picture.

"Oh my God, there are thousands of bison here? This shot is really exciting, and it's so fucking expensive. How much did it cost to shoot this?"

Costner rode a saddled horse and hunted with a shotgun. The Indians rode bareback horses without saddles and hunted with bows and arrows. The camera seemed to be following them and the buffalo herd, moving quickly, giving the audience a sense of

What it's like to ride behind a hunter on horseback.

"It's so beautiful...I've never seen a Western like this."

Ronald shouted excitedly, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the concerned eyes of Niceta and Paula.

"Are you so optimistic about Lonesome Pigeon?" Niceta gave him a glass of water, and the couple also watched the live filming of Lonesome Pigeon. I didn't expect Ronald to be so optimistic about this western miniseries. Could the great director see anything?

Is there something we can’t see?

"Ah? Ah...it's okay, it's okay. That movie was copied from Red River, so it won't be too bad."

Ronald prevaricated and took a sip of water to calm down.

I don’t know why, but it’s easy to dream about movies when I’m on a plane. “Dances with Wolves”, which Costner liked, looks very magnificent. No previous western movie has ever been so dynamic, real, and exciting.

Immersive hunting footage.

It seems that I need to find the novel and read it carefully. If it can be shot to this level, it will definitely be a visual spectacle that American audiences have never seen.

The plane landed in Santa Fe, and Ronald surprisingly found that he had no symptoms of blocked ears. The temperature here was warm but not hot, and the humidity in the air was very low, which made people feel refreshed.

"Drink more water," Niceta handed another bottle of water, and then gave one to her wife, "Santa Fe is a plateau city, with an altitude of 7,200 feet (about 2,000 meters). Drinking more water can help prevent

Altitude sickness."

Several people checked into the hotel, and Ronald and Niceta found Gene Hackman's house here.

"Ding dong..." Ronald rang the doorbell.

"Come in, the door is open, don't let me come out to invite you." Gene Hackman's familiar voice came from the room. Ronald and Niceta looked at each other, opened the door and walked in.

Gene Hackman held a beautiful black-haired woman in his arms and sat on the sofa in the living room. When he saw Ronald, he shook hands with him perfunctorily and did not get up.

It was the dark-haired beauty who looked at Ronald with a curious look.

"I know why you came. I didn't want to say more at first. I already had arrangements for this movie, but Bob (Robert Duvall) called me specifically and said that you are a director who understands the needs of actors very well..."

Hackman pointed to the sofa and asked Ronald to sit down.

"Who is this lovely lady?" Ronald did not follow the old actor's instructions. Instead, he asked for the beauty's name without introducing the lady. Hackman was very rude.

"Bessie, Bessie Arakawa," the black-haired beauty introduced herself. She was the reason why Gene Hackman divorced his wife of thirty years.
To be continued...